Lenin's kisses
INITIAL_TITLE_SRCH:
Lenin's kisses
AUTHOR:
Yan, Lianke, 1958-
閻連科, 1958-
Rojas, Carlos, 1970-
ISBN:
9780099569480
UNIFORM_TITLE:
受活. English
PUBLICATION_INFO:
London : Vintage, 2013.
PHYSICAL_DESC:
vii, 500 p. ; 24 cm
GENERAL_NOTE:
"First published in Chinese as Shuohou in 2004"--T.p. verso.
ABSTRACT:
Yan boldly plunges into the psychic gap between China's decades-old conditioned response to communist doctrine and its redefinition of itself as a capitalist power, creating with bold, carnivalesque strokes a heartbreaking story of greed, corruption, and the dangers of utopia.
PERSONAL_SUBJECT:
SUBJECT:
| People with disabilities -- Fiction. |
| Freak shows -- Fiction. |
| County officials and employees -- Fiction. |
| China -- Fiction. |
| Humorous fiction. |
| Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich, 1870-1924 -- Fiction. |
BIBSUMMARY:
Yan boldly plunges into the psychic gap between China's decades-old conditioned response to communist doctrine and its redefinition of itself as a capitalist power, creating with bold, carnivalesque strokes a heartbreaking story of greed, corruption, and the dangers of utopia.